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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 12 km ENE of Santiago, Philippines

Posted by admin on November 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.3119S, 126.6868WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Santiago in Philippines on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/11/25 / 2025-11-06 07:57:07 / November 6, 2025 @ 7:57 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rlu6. Unique identifier: us6000rlu6. The epicenter was at a depth of 68.448 km (43 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:57:07 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.6868 East, latitude 7.3119 North, depth = 68.448 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corocotan, New Corella, Sigaboy (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from New Corella (c. 20 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days one hundred and one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 12 km ENE of Santiago, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6868° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.3119° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.448 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km ENE of Santiago, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-06 07:57:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-06 08:32:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 369 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 89 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.125 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rlu6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rlu6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rlu6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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